ig-post

ig-post is a skill for Claude Code from mayank-io/mstack. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,873 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A browser-based Instagram extractor that retrieves a post or reel's caption, author, metrics, images, and video, then transcribes its spoken audio. A reel is Instagram's short-video format.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for collecting Instagram post or reel content and turning the video's speech into text.
Why use it?
It prevents the spoken part of a reel from being missed when the caption only gives a brief summary.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: built for gstack.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the fetch plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for collecting Instagram post or reel content and turning the video's speech into text.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add mayank-io/mstack
Claude Code
/plugin install fetch

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fetch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,873 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00086 $0.01873
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00749
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00375
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00187

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 79262380a5d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ig-post scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/fetch/skills/ig-post/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fetch Instagram Post

Pull an Instagram reel or post — caption, author, metrics, media — into a directory, and transcribe the audio. This skill knows nothing about vaults; it retrieves and stops. notes:clip turns the result into a note.

The one thing that makes this skill necessary

On a reel, the caption is not the content. A 90-second talking-head reel carries its argument in the audio; the caption is a teaser ending in "comment INFLUENCE below". Capturing the caption and stopping produces a note that looks complete and contains none of the substance. Always transcribe.

Input

  • First argument — Instagram URL (required): instagram.com/reel/<id>, /p/<id>, or /tv/<id>. Strip ?igsh=… share params.
  • Second argument — output directory (optional). Omitted, a temp directory is used. Created if missing. Never write outside it.

Step 1 — The browser must be gstack, and logged in

Instagram shows a login wall to logged-out sessions. Critically, the wall still renders the author, caption and metrics in the OpenGraph tags, so a logged-out capture yields a plausible-looking result with no video and no transcript. That is the failure this skill exists to prevent.

B="$HOME/.claude/skills/gstack/browse/dist/browse"
"$B" status                     # must report `mode: headed`
"$B" connect --force-restart    # only if it does not

Then confirm the Instagram session specifically — headed is necessary but not sufficient, because the user can be logged into X and not Instagram:

() => ({
  loggedIn: !!document.querySelector('svg[aria-label="Home"], a[href="/direct/inbox/"]'),
  loginWall: /Log in|Sign up/i.test(document.body.innerText.slice(0, 400))
})

If loggedIn is false, stop and ask the user to log in inside the gstack browser, then poll until they have. Do not fall back to a logged-out capture.

⚠️ Do NOT disconnect when done — it tears down the daemon and the user's sessions with it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 134 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 79262380a5d6

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ig-post is a skill published in the GitHub repository mayank-io/mstack (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,873 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-13.

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